Combat Thread - In which i try to honestly kill your characters with (mostly) suboptimized clichéd villains (not really)[i hope], and you absolutely butcher the encounters, most of the time, anyway.

Dice Thread: I don't really like the idea of a dice thread, so we'll try to do without one, and see if it works. Rolling either here or on invisible castle is fine! Just try not to edit your posts to avoid that tampered with the dice message - even double post, if it's a lot of rolls or a very long text, so as to avoid that.

And so... It shall begin...

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"All the pride and pleasure of the world, mirrored in the dull consciousness of a fool, are poor indeed compared with the imagination of Cervantes writing his Don Quixote in a miserable prison" - Schopenhauer, Aphorisms: The Wisdom of Life

Bartok does his version of being stealthy. Instead of running at the caravan yelling intimidatingly, he just walks towards it with his spike chain in hands. Hearing Urak's yell Bartok realizes he's trying to make a diversion. Deciding to help, Bartok then proceeds to run at Urak yelling intimidatingly so that Urak has a reason to be yelling for help.

Would you die if you jumped from my perceived ego to your IQ? - Is 15secs of confirmation bias a goal post worth arguing for? - Ever asked a "victim" what they did to deserve it? - Are the words teen, SJW, & liberal synonyms? - "Only Sith deals in absolutes" contains a misspelled word.

The caravan guards see all the racket and assume a defensive position, making a semi-circle around the wagon facing the party. The horses stop...

You hear one of the guards yell: What in the name of God almighty is the reason for all this racket? If you that are creeping towards us have intent in robbing this wagon, i should let you know that the penalty for assaulting a Church convoy is DEATH, by drawing and quartering. Besides, there is nothing of worth here. This is a prison wagon. Vanish at once or be slayed in the name of God almighty and the Holy Church.

Now that you are all closer, you can see that the guards number in 6. Four outside the wagon, and the two that come out of the wagon to join in protecting the wagon. Two of the guards are holding crossbows at the ready.

K, so that seems to be all of it. Now, in a bit, i'll start posting actions.

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"All the pride and pleasure of the world, mirrored in the dull consciousness of a fool, are poor indeed compared with the imagination of Cervantes writing his Don Quixote in a miserable prison" - Schopenhauer, Aphorisms: The Wisdom of Life

"All the pride and pleasure of the world, mirrored in the dull consciousness of a fool, are poor indeed compared with the imagination of Cervantes writing his Don Quixote in a miserable prison" - Schopenhauer, Aphorisms: The Wisdom of Life

Qoden follows along behind Bartok and Urak, reaching out and touching both of them on the shoulder, the blue tint to his hair fading slightly. Both can sense and see a faint blue haze rippling around their weapons. As they move closer to the caravan, Qoden hangs back slightly, stopping roughly 100' from the caravan.

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For the next minute, all attacks both Bartok and Urak make deal +1d4 Force damage, as per Ætherfire Aura.

I was assuming that we were crossing most of the 700'+ distance OOI (out-of-init), but if not, what I posted above are Qoden's intentions.

That would be correct. Updating the init count...

Init count updated. Now waiting for last 2 to roll init and post here, and then i'll make a map and start posting actions. Hassin has not acted his surprise round yet, also, and hasn't rolled his init.

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"All the pride and pleasure of the world, mirrored in the dull consciousness of a fool, are poor indeed compared with the imagination of Cervantes writing his Don Quixote in a miserable prison" - Schopenhauer, Aphorisms: The Wisdom of Life

Um, watch this space, I have time to post in two hours or so. Also, edited one illumination so that it's actually valid to use (and edited the device somewhat, since we just rested--so, goodbye to the +1 bonus, hello to these things being bizarrely heavy).

Oh, I suppose I should better roll initiative. I kind of assumed at least some of us would be getting a surprise round, what with the +40-ish distance DCs the caravan guards are taking to their opposed Spot and Listen, so I didn't bother to earlier

Advancing without any attempt at stealth, Brighid measured up their foes, and--out of reflex--which presented the most immediate threat to her person. The crossbowmen--a shooting match, then.

Once in range, both strange weapons were pointed at a single guard. Brightening from gleaming to a spark of the sun, the girl fired. The man, if hit, would find that the bolt was much heavier than anything such as crystallised light should be.

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Crossbowman one, prepare to be shot at!

Illumination prepared is the imbue one, so... using that on shot one.

If the first shot drops him, somehow, the second aims at the OTHER crossbowman. Also, by 'in range', I mean 'within 60' '.

EDIT: I'll go ahead and post the actions of the guards in a bit... Raineh Daze, i think i might have missed your init?EDIT2: Nvm, 14 init.

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"All the pride and pleasure of the world, mirrored in the dull consciousness of a fool, are poor indeed compared with the imagination of Cervantes writing his Don Quixote in a miserable prison" - Schopenhauer, Aphorisms: The Wisdom of Life